Theatrical release poster
James Cameron
James CameronGale Anne Hurd
Gale Anne Hurd
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMichael BiehnLinda HamiltonPaul Winfield
Adam Greenberg
Mark Goldblatt
Brad Fiedel
HemdalePacific Western ProductionsEuro Film FundingCinema '84
Orion Pictures
October 26, 1984
107 minutes[1]
United States[2][3][4]
English
$6.4 million[5]
$78.3 million[5]
Cameron devised the premise of the film from a fever dream he experienced during the release of his first film, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), in Rome, and developed the concept in collaboration with Wisher. He sold the rights to the project to fellow New World Pictures alumna Hurd on the condition that she would produce the film only if he were to direct it; Hurd eventually secured a distribution deal with Orion Pictures, while executive producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of Hemdale Film Corporation were instrumental in setting up the film's financing and production. Originally approached by Orion for the role of Reese, Schwarzenegger agreed to play the title character after befriending Cameron. Filming, which took place mostly at night on location in Los Angeles, was delayed because of Schwarzenegger's commitments to Conan the Destroyer (1984), during which Cameron found time to work on the scripts for Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Aliens (1986). The film's special effects, which included miniatures and stop-motion animation, were created by a team of artists led by Stan Winston and Gene Warren Jr.
Defying low pre-release expectations, The Terminator topped the United States box office for two weeks, eventually grossing $78.3 million against a modest $6.4 million budget. It is credited with launching Cameron's film career and solidifying Schwarzenegger's status as a leading man. The film's success led to a franchise consisting of several sequels, a television series, comic books, novels and video games. In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Two beings arrive in 1984 Los Angeles, having time traveled from 2029. One is a cybernetic assassin known as the Terminator hunting a woman named Sarah Connor. The other is a human soldier named Kyle Reese intent on stopping it. The Terminator systematically kills women bearing its target?s name whose addresses it finds in a telephone directory. It tracks the last Sarah Connor, its actual target, to a nightclub, but Reese rescues her. The pair steal a car and escape with the Terminator pursuing them in a police car.
As they hide in a parking lot, Reese explains to Sarah that an artificially intelligent defense network known as Skynet, created by Cyberdyne Systems, will become self-aware in the near future and trigger a global nuclear war in order to exterminate the human species. Sarah's future son John will rally the survivors and lead a successful resistance movement against Skynet and its army of machines. On the verge of the Resistance?s victory, Skynet sent the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John is born to forestall the Resistance?s formation. The Terminator is an efficient and relentless killing machine with perfect voice-mimicking ability and a powerful metal endoskeleton covered by living tissue that disguises it as human.
Reese and Sarah are apprehended by police after another encounter with the Terminator. The Terminator attacks the police station, killing all present while hunting Sarah. Reese and Sarah escape, steal another car and take refuge in a motel, where they assemble pipe bombs and plan their next move. Reese admits that he has adored Sarah since John gave him a photograph of her, and that he traveled through time not only to save her, but because he fell in love with her from the photograph. Reciprocating his feelings, Sarah kisses him and they have sex, conceiving John.
The Terminator locates Sarah by killing and impersonating her mother when Sarah, unaware of its voice-mimicking ability, calls her and divulges her location. Realizing this, she and Reese escape in a pickup truck while it chases them on a motorcycle. In the ensuing chase, Reese is wounded by gunfire while throwing pipe bombs at the Terminator. Sarah knocks the Terminator off its motorcycle but loses control of the truck, which flips over. The Terminator, now bloodied and badly damaged, hijacks a tank truck and attempts to run down Sarah, but Reese slides a pipe bomb onto the tanker's exhaust pipe, causing an explosion that burns the flesh from the Terminator?s endoskeleton. It pursues them into a factory, where Reese activates machinery to confuse it. He jams his final pipe bomb into its midsection, blowing it apart at the cost of his life, as the explosion kills him and injures Sarah. Its still-functional torso grabs Sarah, but she breaks free and lures it into a hydraulic press, crushing and finally destroying it.
Months later, Sarah, pregnant with John, travels through Mexico, recording audio tapes to pass on to him. At a gas station, a boy takes an instant photograph of her and she buys it. It is the same photograph that John will one day give to Reese.
Cameron devised the premise of the film from a fever dream he experienced during the release of his first film, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), in Rome, and developed the concept in collaboration with Wisher. He sold the rights to the project to fellow New World Pictures alumna Hurd on the condition that she would produce the film only if he were to direct it; Hurd eventually secured a distribution deal with Orion Pictures, while executive producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of Hemdale Film Corporation were instrumental in setting up the film's financing and production. Originally approached by Orion for the role of Reese, Schwarzenegger agreed to play the title character after befriending Cameron. Filming, which took place mostly at night on location in Los Angeles, was delayed because of Schwarzenegger's commitments to Conan the Destroyer (1984), during which Cameron found time to work on the scripts for Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Aliens (1986). The film's special effects, which included miniatures and stop-motion animation, were created by a team of artists led by Stan Winston and Gene Warren Jr.
Defying low pre-release expectations, The Terminator topped the United States box office for two weeks, eventually grossing $78.3 million against a modest $6.4 million budget. It is credited with launching Cameron's film career and solidifying Schwarzenegger's status as a leading man. The film's success led to a franchise consisting of several sequels, a television series, comic books, novels and video games. In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Music
4 Release
4.1 Critical response
4.1.1 Contemporary
4.1.2 Retrospective
5 Post-release
5.1 Aftermath
5.2 Thematic analysis
5.3 Home media
6 Legacy
6.1 Merchandise
7 Sequels
8 References
8.1 Citations
8.2 Bibliography
9 External links
Plot
Two beings arrive in 1984 Los Angeles, having time traveled from 2029. One is a cybernetic assassin known as the Terminator hunting a woman named Sarah Connor. The other is a human soldier named Kyle Reese intent on stopping it. The Terminator systematically kills women bearing its target?s name whose addresses it finds in a telephone directory. It tracks the last Sarah Connor, its actual target, to a nightclub, but Reese rescues her. The pair steal a car and escape with the Terminator pursuing them in a police car.
As they hide in a parking lot, Reese explains to Sarah that an artificially intelligent defense network known as Skynet, created by Cyberdyne Systems, will become self-aware in the near future and trigger a global nuclear war in order to exterminate the human species. Sarah's future son John will rally the survivors and lead a successful resistance movement against Skynet and its army of machines. On the verge of the Resistance?s victory, Skynet sent the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John is born to forestall the Resistance?s formation. The Terminator is an efficient and relentless killing machine with perfect voice-mimicking ability and a powerful metal endoskeleton covered by living tissue that disguises it as human.
Reese and Sarah are apprehended by police after another encounter with the Terminator. The Terminator attacks the police station, killing all present while hunting Sarah. Reese and Sarah escape, steal another car and take refuge in a motel, where they assemble pipe bombs and plan their next move. Reese admits that he has adored Sarah since John gave him a photograph of her, and that he traveled through time not only to save her, but because he fell in love with her from the photograph. Reciprocating his feelings, Sarah kisses him and they have sex, conceiving John.
The Terminator locates Sarah by killing and impersonating her mother when Sarah, unaware of its voice-mimicking ability, calls her and divulges her location. Realizing this, she and Reese escape in a pickup truck while it chases them on a motorcycle. In the ensuing chase, Reese is wounded by gunfire while throwing pipe bombs at the Terminator. Sarah knocks the Terminator off its motorcycle but loses control of the truck, which flips over. The Terminator, now bloodied and badly damaged, hijacks a tank truck and attempts to run down Sarah, but Reese slides a pipe bomb onto the tanker's exhaust pipe, causing an explosion that burns the flesh from the Terminator?s endoskeleton. It pursues them into a factory, where Reese activates machinery to confuse it. He jams his final pipe bomb into its midsection, blowing it apart at the cost of his life, as the explosion kills him and injures Sarah. Its still-functional torso grabs Sarah, but she breaks free and lures it into a hydraulic press, crushing and finally destroying it.
Months later, Sarah, pregnant with John, travels through Mexico, recording audio tapes to pass on to him. At a gas station, a boy takes an instant photograph of her and she buys it. It is the same photograph that John will one day give to Reese.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to searchThis article is about the film. For the franchise, see Terminator (franchise). For the character, see Terminator (character). For the character concept, see Terminator (character concept). For other uses, see Terminator (disambiguation).
The Terminator
Theatrical release poster James Cameron James CameronGale Anne Hurd Gale Anne Hurd Arnold SchwarzeneggerMichael BiehnLinda HamiltonPaul Winfield Adam Greenberg Mark Goldblatt Brad Fiedel HemdalePacific Western ProductionsEuro Film FundingCinema '84 Orion Pictures October 26, 1984 107 minutes[1] United States[2][3][4] English $6.4 million[5] $78.3 million[5]
The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will one day save mankind from extinction by Skynet, a hostile artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptic future. Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) is a soldier sent back in time to protect Sarah. The screenplay is credited to Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd. Co-writer William Wisher Jr. received a credit for additional dialogue.
Cameron devised the premise of the film from a fever dream he experienced during the release of his first film, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), in Rome, and developed the concept in collaboration with Wisher. He sold the rights to the project to fellow New World Pictures alumna Hurd on the condition that she would produce the film only if he were to direct it; Hurd eventually secured a distribution deal with Orion Pictures, while executive producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of Hemdale Film Corporation were instrumental in setting up the film's financing and production. Originally approached by Orion for the role of Reese, Schwarzenegger agreed to play the title character after befriending Cameron. Filming, which took place mostly at night on location in Los Angeles, was delayed because of Schwarzenegger's commitments to Conan the Destroyer (1984), during which Cameron found time to work on the scripts for Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Aliens (1986). The film's special effects, which included miniatures and stop-motion animation, were created by a team of artists led by Stan Winston and Gene Warren Jr.
Defying low pre-release expectations, The Terminator topped the United States box office for two weeks, eventually grossing $78.3 million against a modest $6.4 million budget. It is credited with launching Cameron's film career and solidifying Schwarzenegger's status as a leading man. The film's success led to a franchise consisting of several sequels, a television series, comic books, novels and video games. In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Contents
1Plot
2Cast
3Production
3.1Development
3.2Casting
3.3Filming
3.4Music
4Release
4.1Critical response
4.1.1Contemporary
4.1.2Retrospective
5Post-release
5.1Aftermath
5.2Thematic analysis
5.3Home media
6Legacy
6.1Merchandise
7Sequels
8References
8.1Citations
8.2Bibliography
9External links
Plot[edit]
Two beings arrive in 1984 Los Angeles, having time traveled from 2029. One is a cybernetic assassin known as the Terminator hunting a woman named Sarah Connor. The other is a human soldier named Kyle Reese intent on stopping it. The Terminator systematically kills women bearing its target?s name whose addresses it finds in a telephone directory. It tracks the last Sarah Connor, its actual target, to a nightclub, but Reese rescues her. The pair steal a car and escape with the Terminator pursuing them in a police car.
As they hide in a parking lot, Reese explains to Sarah that an artificially intelligent defense network known as Skynet, created by Cyberdyne Systems, will become self-aware in the near future and trigger a global nuclear war in order to exterminate the human species. Sarah's future son John will rally the survivors and lead a successful resistance movement against Skynet and its army of machines. On the verge of the Resistance?s victory, Skynet sent the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John is born to forestall the Resistance?s formation. The Terminator is an efficient and relentless killing machine with perfect voice-mimicking ability and a powerful metal endoskeleton covered by living tissue that disguises it as human.
Reese and Sarah are apprehended by police after another encounter with the Terminator. The Terminator attacks the police station, killing all present while hunting Sarah. Reese and Sarah escape, steal another car and take refuge in a motel, where they assemble pipe bombs and plan their next move. Reese admits that he has adored Sarah since John gave him a photograph of her, and that he traveled through time not only to save her, but because he fell in love with her from the photograph. Reciprocating his feelings, Sarah kisses him and they have sex, conceiving John.
The Terminator locates Sarah by killing and impersonating her mother when Sarah, unaware of its voice-mimicking ability, calls her and divulges her location. Realizing this, she and Reese escape in a pickup truck while it chases them on a motorcycle. In the ensuing chase, Reese is wounded by gunfire while throwing pipe bombs at the Terminator. Sarah knocks the Terminator off its motorcycle but loses control of the truck, which flips over. The Terminator, now bloodied and badly damaged, hijacks a tank truck and attempts to run down Sarah, but Reese slides a pipe bomb onto the tanker's exhaust pipe, causing an explosion that burns the flesh from the Terminator?s endoskeleton. It pursues them into a factory, where Reese activates machinery to confuse it. He jams his final pipe bomb into its midsection, blowing it apart at the cost of his life, as the explosion kills him and injures Sarah. Its still-functional torso grabs Sarah, but she breaks free and lures it into a hydraulic press, crushing and finally destroying it.
Months later, Sarah, pregnant with John, travels through Mexico, recording audio tapes to pass on to him. At a gas station, a boy takes an instant photograph of her and she buys it. It is the same photograph that John will one day give to Reese.
The Terminator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search This article is about the film. For the franchise, see Terminator (franchise). For the character, see Terminator (character). For the character concept, see Terminator (character concept). For other uses, see Terminator (disambiguation). The Terminator Terminator1984movieposter.jpg Theatrical release poster Directed by James Cameron Written by
James Cameron Gale Anne Hurd Produced by Gale Anne Hurd Starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger Michael Biehn Linda Hamilton Paul Winfield Cinematography Adam Greenberg Edited by Mark Goldblatt Music by Brad Fiedel Production companies
Hemdale Pacific Western Productions Euro Film Funding Cinema '84 Distributed by Orion Pictures Release date
October 26, 1984 Running time 107 minutes[1] Country
United States[2][3][4] Language English Budget $6.4 million[5] Box office $78.3 million[5] The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will one day save mankind from extinction by Skynet, a hostile artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptic future. Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) is a soldier sent back in time to protect Sarah. The screenplay is credited to Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd. Co-writer William Wisher Jr. received a credit for additional dialogue.
Cameron devised the premise of the film from a fever dream he experienced during the release of his first film, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), in Rome, and developed the concept in collaboration with Wisher. He sold the rights to the project to fellow New World Pictures alumna Hurd on the condition that she would produce the film only if he were to direct it; Hurd eventually secured a distribution deal with Orion Pictures, while executive producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of Hemdale Film Corporation were instrumental in setting up the film's financing and production. Originally approached by Orion for the role of Reese, Schwarzenegger agreed to play the title character after befriending Cameron. Filming, which took place mostly at night on location in Los Angeles, was delayed because of Schwarzenegger's commitments to Conan the Destroyer (1984), during which Cameron found time to work on the scripts for Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Aliens (1986). The film's special effects, which included miniatures and stop-motion animation, were created by a team of artists led by Stan Winston and Gene Warren Jr.
Defying low pre-release expectations, The Terminator topped the United States box office for two weeks, eventually grossing $78.3 million against a modest $6.4 million budget. It is credited with launching Cameron's film career and solidifying Schwarzenegger's status as a leading man. The film's success led to a franchise consisting of several sequels, a television series, comic books, novels and video games. In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Development 3.2 Casting 3.3 Filming 3.4 Music 4 Release 4.1 Critical response 4.1.1 Contemporary 4.1.2 Retrospective 5 Post-release 5.1 Aftermath 5.2 Thematic analysis 5.3 Home media 6 Legacy 6.1 Merchandise 7 Sequels 8 References 8.1 Citations 8.2 Bibliography 9 External links Plot Two beings arrive in 1984 Los Angeles, having time traveled from 2029. One is a cybernetic assassin known as the Terminator hunting a woman named Sarah Connor. The other is a human soldier named Kyle Reese intent on stopping it. The Terminator systematically kills women bearing its target?s name whose addresses it finds in a telephone directory. It tracks the last Sarah Connor, its actual target, to a nightclub, but Reese rescues her. The pair steal a car and escape with the Terminator pursuing them in a police car.
As they hide in a parking lot, Reese explains to Sarah that an artificially intelligent defense network known as Skynet, created by Cyberdyne Systems, will become self-aware in the near future and trigger a global nuclear war in order to exterminate the human species. Sarah's future son John will rally the survivors and lead a successful resistance movement against Skynet and its army of machines. On the verge of the Resistance?s victory, Skynet sent the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John is born to forestall the Resistance?s formation. The Terminator is an efficient and relentless killing machine with perfect voice-mimicking ability and a powerful metal endoskeleton covered by living tissue that disguises it as human.
Reese and Sarah are apprehended by police after another encounter with the Terminator. The Terminator attacks the police station, killing all present while hunting Sarah. Reese and Sarah escape, steal another car and take refuge in a motel, where they assemble pipe bombs and plan their next move. Reese admits that he has adored Sarah since John gave him a photograph of her, and that he traveled through time not only to save her, but because he fell in love with her from the photograph. Reciprocating his feelings, Sarah kisses him and they have sex, conceiving John.
The Terminator locates Sarah by killing and impersonating her mother when Sarah, unaware of its voice-mimicking ability, calls her and divulges her location. Realizing this, she and Reese escape in a pickup truck while it chases them on a motorcycle. In the ensuing chase, Reese is wounded by gunfire while throwing pipe bombs at the Terminator. Sarah knocks the Terminator off its motorcycle but loses control of the truck, which flips over. The Terminator, now bloodied and badly damaged, hijacks a tank truck and attempts to run down Sarah, but Reese slides a pipe bomb onto the tanker's exhaust pipe, causing an explosion that burns the flesh from the Terminator?s endoskeleton. It pursues them into a factory, where Reese activates machinery to confuse it. He jams his final pipe bomb into its midsection, blowing it apart at the cost of his life, as the explosion kills him and injures Sarah. Its still-functional torso grabs Sarah, but she breaks free and lures it into a hydraulic press, crushing and finally destroying it.
Months later, Sarah, pregnant with John, travels through Mexico, recording audio tapes to pass on to him. At a gas station, a boy takes an instant photograph of her and she buys it. It is the same photograph that John will one day give to Reese.